ageism
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6.0
- noun
- /ˈeɪdʒɪzəm/
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edadismo
- Like sexism, whose ill effects in the larger society are mirrored and reproduced within families, ageism too finds its way into the home.
- ageism and sexism
- ageism, classism
Because I mean, if we're going to be honest, ageism is a thing.
- Because I mean, if we're going to be honest, ageism is a thing.
- So if I'm defending somebody for the charge of ageism, I make that case.
- And I think what she is saying is nothing more than old fashioned ageism.
- But Jay, I feel like you're a victim of the terrible last viable prejudice in America, ageism.
- He said Boomer is the N word of ageism.
- And I think that's what we needed to kind of get past the algorithm of, you know, ageism isn't hip hop.
Examples
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Ageism is when a person is discriminated against or treated unfairly because of their age.
Academic text (2012) -
Organize to protect Social Security (standard and supplemental), Medicare and Medicaid, and fight ageism in the workplace or the doctor's office.
Academic text (1999) -
Put simply, to value the student voice is to not express ageism in the United States.
Blog text (22) -
Most women would rather fight ageism than aging.
Academic text (1990) -
While men also suffer from ageism, women suffer it at a younger age than men.
Academic text (1990) -
Government teachers begin the unit with issues of stereotyping and ageism.
Academic text (2003) -
We don't want the department to be accused of ageism.
Fiction book (1991) -
That's ageism, being prejudiced against people because they're old.
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"Evidence from the last recession shows that proportionately more older people lost their jobs, and because of ageism in the workplace, they found it harder to find another job.
Academic text (2009) -
Many elderly people experience ageism when they are ignored in job interviews.
Synonyms
Treating people unfairly because of their age, especially older people
How Biased
97
6.5
- Offensive
535
3.5
8
6.0
180
4.8
- Specialized
261
5.2
236
1.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ageism joins age and the ending -ism, the same ending in racism and sexism that marks unfair ideas or actions about a group. So, ageism means 'unfair treatment' or bad ideas about people because of their age.